IHI Keeps Japan a Contender
In the Jet-Engine Marketplace

TOKYO -- The West has largely stopped worrying that Japan will become a big force in aerospace, but one company is beginning to look like a contender.

Japan's biggest maker of jet engines, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., has quietly become a force that the world's aerospace giants must reckon with, Western aerospace experts say. The company, known as IHI, has helped the world's largest jet-engine makers on projects, including the power plants on Boeing Co.'s newest commercial jet. IHI's strength in technologies such...